Open Source eCommerce

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Claims an open-source stack that evolved from Vue Storefront into Alokai with 8+ years of experience, now supporting 10+ e‑commerce backends and React/Qwik support; shows a UI library, Storefront UI (rewritten to Tailwind in 2019), that ships copy‑paste components; explains using SSR caching plus client‑only rendering for session content to avoid cache poisoning; demonstrates Alokai Middleware as an open API‑gateway that federates SAP Commerce + Contentful into a single PDP endpoint.

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1. 0:00Open source e-commerce intro
2. 2:52WordPress to headless architecture
3. 7:51Headless e-commerce evolution
4. 9:59Building storefronts with frameworks
5. 10:42UI development with Storefront UI
6. 12:33Traffic growth and caching
7. 14:22Session-specific content safely
8. 17:08Scaling with APIs and gateways
9. 20:18Simplifying integrations
10. 22:23Key takeaways for storefronts
11. 23:48Summary and closing

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